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		<title>80 years on, we might need some 21st Century Blueshirts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blueshirts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fianna Fáil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maurice Manning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worrying reports in today&#8217;s newspapers about opposition politicians combining to prevent Government views being expressed at a public meeting, and about physical and verbal abuse of Government deputies.  One expects no better from Sinn Féin, of course, but it&#8217;s disappointing to see Fianna Fáil brazenly displaying their bully-boy DNA so soon after they destroyed the country&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=puckstownlane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8214286&amp;post=3014&amp;subd=puckstownlane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AAAAAA revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spelling and Grammar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grammar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1999, The Economist started to get worried about the proliferation of acronyms, particularly TLAs (three-letter acronyms). The Economist would like to draw attention to a new shortage: of acronyms and abbreviations. So great is the demand in a world where new organisations spring up almost daily, and firms are increasingly known only by strings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=puckstownlane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8214286&amp;post=2949&amp;subd=puckstownlane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drumm raises the ante for Anglo board &#8211; he claims, in effect, that they knowingly approved misleading accounts</title>
		<link>http://puckstownlane.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/drumm-raises-the-ante-for-anglo-board-he-claims-in-effect-that-they-knowingly-approved-misleading-accounts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PuckstownLane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anglo-Irish Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bankers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Drumm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seán FitzPatrick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former Anglo-Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm, in challenging the bank’s lawsuit against him in his US bankruptcy case, said the transferring of Chairman Seán FitzPatrick’s loans of up to €120 million off Anglo’s books was “fully and properly signed off by the bank’s credit committee as well as several non-executive directors&#8221; (see for instance this report in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=puckstownlane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8214286&amp;post=2989&amp;subd=puckstownlane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing CGT rate would be economically pointless</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Capital gains tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CGT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie McCreevy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the fuss about the release of the Government’s budgetary plan to German politicians, one aspect of the plan seems to have escaped with little or no comment.  There is apparently a statement that €100 million would be raised from a reform of capital gains tax (CGT).  For &#8220;reform&#8221;, presumably we can assume an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=puckstownlane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8214286&amp;post=2979&amp;subd=puckstownlane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is &#8220;material comfort&#8221; now a basic right of all citizens?</title>
		<link>http://puckstownlane.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/is-material-comfort-now-a-basic-right-of-all-citizens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Civil rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael D Higgins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Michael D. Higgins, in his inaugural address said: &#8220;&#8230; it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.&#8221; Hang on a minute: does everybody have a basic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=puckstownlane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8214286&amp;post=2966&amp;subd=puckstownlane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My cunning plan to solve the Eurozone crisis</title>
		<link>http://puckstownlane.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/my-cunning-plan-to-solve-the-eurozone-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PuckstownLane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Central Bank]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s simple really.  As John Maudlin says: &#8220;&#8230; the money to solve the crisis does not exist. The only way to find it is for the ECB to print money and print in size, enough to lower the value of the euro and make exports cheaper (which gives southern Europe a chance to grow out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=puckstownlane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8214286&amp;post=2960&amp;subd=puckstownlane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No votes for public sector employees?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may think that I am on occasion anti-public sector in my pronouncements (actually I&#8217;m not; I just think that Irish public sector management is lazy and inefficient and provides poor leadership).  Anyway, compared to the guy quoted below, I am a pussycat. Dr J C Lester argues that only (net) taxpayers should be allowed to vote, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=puckstownlane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8214286&amp;post=1975&amp;subd=puckstownlane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Embarrassing reality check: only 1 of the 7 presidential contenders could debate in our first official language</title>
		<link>http://puckstownlane.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/embarrassing-reality-check-only-1-of-the-7-presidential-contenders-could-debate-in-our-first-official-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PuckstownLane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Irish Language]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael D Higgins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, coincidentally or otherwise, we have elected as President the only candidate who actually can converse in our first official language (that&#8217;s the Irish language by the way). From Irish Times on 19th October, reporting on the televised presidential debate held on our national Irish-language TV station, TG4.: Only one of the seven, Mr [Michael D.] Higgins, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=puckstownlane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8214286&amp;post=2921&amp;subd=puckstownlane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ahern remains delusional</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PuckstownLane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Irish Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bertie Ahern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahon Tribunal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the press is to blame for the collapse of the Irish economy.  At least that appears to be the latest line being spun by Bertie Ahern.  Unbelievable. You couldn&#8217;t make it up.  See details of an interview with our dodgy, delusional, and disgraced former Taoiseach here. A flavour of his ramblings:- Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=puckstownlane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8214286&amp;post=2924&amp;subd=puckstownlane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, Christian Jankowski, for exposing the real meaning of &#8220;conceptual&#8221; art</title>
		<link>http://puckstownlane.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/thank-you-christian-jankowski-for-exposing-the-real-meaning-of-conceptual-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PuckstownLane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Jankowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contemporary art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frieze Art Fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcel Duchamp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday&#8217;s Guardian had an article about the Frieze Art Fair, an international contemporary art fair that takes place every October in London.  Specifically, it dealt with Christian Jankowski&#8217;s cruel artistic joke &#8220;The Finest Art on Water&#8221;.  As their chief art writer, Charlotte Higgins, puts it: &#8230;.. one artist has taken the sometimes queasy-making connection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=puckstownlane.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8214286&amp;post=2906&amp;subd=puckstownlane&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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